Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-06
THE RAILEOAD RECORD.

The Dsnver Republican slses Up the situ-
saion In Montana and wants. - Break
into = Terrttory-1hs CsnaAian Pa
CHE Proposation.
M~oNTANA's RAILWAY BUILDING BOOM.
Denver Republican: The importance to
Denver of q sort of Rio Grande railway
system extending northwest into Montana
has been pointed out BY the Republican,
I which, like . faithful pilot, 10 ever alert in
leading Denver trade into new channels.
Every day confirms our opinion that this
connection 10 the next great and over
shadowing undertaking which triumphant
Denver enterprise has before it. Not a
moment is to be lost. The intellect and
wealth Of the city ehould be addressed to
| the subject at once. Montana is verging
upon q boom that will equal anything OF
the kind ever known in Colorado.
Last winter was disastrous to her
cattle industries, but it is one Of
| those blessings in disguise that all
| countries experience at times. It broke up
| the old range system and has resulted in q
rapid reorganization of the stock business
! on the basis of providing winter food. On
| this basis stock raising will rapidly expand
and in three u four years the product will
be double the best year Of the old regime.
But it is in mining that Montana 10 coming
to the front with wonderful strides. Grad
ually she has been creeping up until the
only State or Territory that il ahead OF
her IL Colorado. Last year she was but a
million behind Us, and this season the race
will be neck and neck. If she does
not beat us she is confident ri at
least getting into condition to leave us
several millions behind next year. If Col
OradO is to be distanced at all, no rival
could be more welcome to the honor than
Montana, because, as re have shown in
previous articles. she is so situated as TO
become intimately related to our State,
and must inevitably be tributary CONNER
cial territory to Denver. Our secured route
to the Gulf leaves nothing but q direct
northwest road to be provided.
1t is estimated that $50, 900, 900 is be-
ing expended in Montana this ear in the
construction of railroads. The Manitoba
is building 600 miles 50 as to finish it's line
from St. Paul to Helena, and the Northern
Pacific is getting ready to receive this for
midable rival by pushing q system Of
branches all over the territory. The Man
itoba is q st. Paul Minneapolis system,
while the Northern Pacific is virtually a
shifts Of t~rack-layers. and with the aid of
the electric light, is putting down eight
miles Of iron in twenty-four hours.
thus furnishing the most bril-
liant exhibition of railroad building
the world has ever seen, and at the anne
time securing an international advertise
ment for itself and Montana. Much Den.
yer capital is already invested in Montana
smelters and mines, and several millions
more are going there. Our urgent need is a
road which terminates here and there. A
road extending through Laramie City rel
the Laramie Plains. up the Wind River.
past the Yellowstone Park and branching
over Montana is what we want. 1t can bs
built more cheaply and in less time than
the Rio Grande. 1t would pay it's way.
PACIFIC PROPOSITION.
CHICAGO, July 5.-A special from Mon
treal, Canada, says: The tender OF the
Canadian Pacific railway for the English
mail service on the Pacific is 70 follows:
It has offered to contract for the ocean
service at a speed of fifteen instead of
eleven knots and to build it's boats under
the admiralty supervision SO that they
may be readily converted into armed
cruisers for a subsidy of 10000 per an
mum. In addition to this it is also offer
ing to carry the China and Japan mails
$500 miles across the continent OF
America free Of charge; also to carry troops
and government stores over the same dis
lance of land and over ocean
AT COST PRICE,
thus making the route an unimperial high
way. The subsidy is calculated on the
price per mile which the British government
says Peninsular and Oriental company
for the carriage of India and China mails
via Suez and by this estimate the amount
in subsidy for fortnightly mail service
which way between Vancouver and Hong
Kong would be 91O5, 600 per anbum. The
other tender of the Morgan company asks
the Pacific service alone to be per- |
at a speed Of eleven knots. There
are, of course, in the latter tender none of
the advantages offered in addition by the
Canadian Pacific railroad with regard to
the land carriage.